Motivational Quotes

Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- Fyfe, David

Best Quotes about Children

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

45.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.